Tommy James Quotes

If I don't get at least 1 email in any given hour, I begin to think my friends are conspiring against me.

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• I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Understand

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Promises
  • Commit
  • Loyal

• I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Kids
  • Out
  • Five

• I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Success
  • Words

• I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Fantasy
  • Luxury
  • Middle East

• I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Believe
  • Done
  • See

• I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Whenever you manage more than 100 attorneys, there's always going to be attorneys who believe that someone isn't as good as they are.

  

  Pat Meehan
  • Good
  • Believe
  • You

• Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

  

  Hannah More
  • Done
  • Reasons
  • Gives

• The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend - and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him. The uses of prayer are thus only subjective.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Believe
  • Wish

• Manhood is what we profess, and what we try to get across.

  

  James Brown

• People will never stop having kids, and people will never stop spending money on them to make sure they're safe, healthy, and educated.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • People
  • Money
  • Kids

• I just like stuff that's raw, itself, real and genuine. I think that's the way art should be. That's the kind of stuff that people can connect to more.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Real
  • Art

• A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Job
  • Dream
  • Past

• I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.

  

  Claire Tomalin

• I feel accomplished knowing that I'm still the same at heart.

  

  Kiana Tom
  • Heart

• When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Me

• I started directing on 'The Wire.'

  

  Anthony Hemingway

• One of my closest friends was a half-black, half-Jewish girl. Another good friend had a shaved head... but I was also friends with jocks. I was a 'floater,' I guess you could say.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Black

• I have a couple freeloader friends, but it's okay. I know they're gonna come in with their arms flying in the air empty-handed.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • Friends
  • Couple
  • Air

• I try and work out as much as I can because when you exercise, it releases endorphins and makes you feel really good. I also make sure I schedule time with my friends, family, and loved ones because I realize that, as well as your physical well-being, you have to look out for your mental well-being, too.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• If I don't get at least 1 email in any given hour, I begin to think my friends are conspiring against me.

  

  Tommy James
  • Friends